A BBC compara os vices americanos. Alguns destaques:
The incumbent: Dick Cheney
Age: 63
Background: Born in Wyoming into middle-class family, son of a soil conservation agent. Won a scholarship to Yale.
The hopeful: John Edwards
Age: 51
Background: Born in South Carolina into working class family, son of a mill worker. Earned law degree from the University of North Carolina.
Leanings: Hawkish social conservative. Key proponent of the war in Iraq, has voted against abortion rights, gun control and the Equal Rights Amendment
Leanings: Liberal for a southerner; favours abortion rights. Wants to roll back tax cuts for wealthiest Americans, and opposed the $87bn supplemental spending package last year to fund operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. chuck Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.